The Reborn
I have short legs!!

“Stupid seats. Stupid planes. Stupid 7 hours. Stupid Raven.” I mumbled as I pushed passed people.

God, this airport is full and how the fuck am I supposed to replace the exit? Or those people that came to take me.

Simply. We don’t and they don’t.

Ohh, they will because I don’t want to sleep in this airport full with sweaty and stinking people.

“Excuse me! I know that I’m short, but I’m not fucking invisible!” I spitted at a girl because I think she wanted to walk through me since she almost knocked me down.

“For me, you are loser.” she said and kept walking.

I dropped my suitcases and raised my sleeves. “Come here bitch and I’ll shown you who is the loser here.”

She widen her eyes and started to run. As I wanted to run after her, a hand stopped me by grabbing my right arm.

“So you must be Shadow.” a deep voice said and I cursed under my breath.

My hopes of escaping them were now vanished.

Good job, idiot.

Shut up.

I let out a sigh as I turned around. “Unfortunately, I am Shadow.”

The guy in front of me was tall as fuck and he looks damn fine. He has brown slightly curly hair, brown eyes that were watching me intently and a damn nice jawline.

If I was in other circumstances, I would totally flirt with him.

What about the duck?

Screw him. He is in the past and the past must stay in the past.

Yeah. Keep telling yourself that.

It’s the true.

“Hello!” brownie said and waved his hand in front of my face.

I looked at him and blinked. “Sorry, I spaced out.”

“It’s fine. I’m Iron Greystorm and I’ll lead you to your home.”

Sadness filled my body at the word ‘home’. I don’t have a home. Those are just places I visit and maybe I stay there for a period of time, because home is where you can be yourself without having people judging you and I still have to replace my home.

“I don’t have a home. Home is just a stupid concept used by us to name a place where we feel at home. Where we feel welcomed and loved for who we are. And I no longer believe in this concept since ‘home’ can’t be an always thing. We can have a home for 2 months and then PUF. You are homeless and unwanted.” I explained with a straight voice as I pulled my suitcases to the exit.

Iron walked closely behind me. “Everybody has a home. You just need to replace yours. And if you have a home for 2 months and then it suddenly stops being your home, it means that it never was your true home.”

He has a point.

“Maybe you are right, but since then, I’m homeless.” I shrugged looking in front of me the whole time. I don’t want him to see how much this subject bothers me.

Suddenly, he was in front of me and smiled. A true smile, not a smirk or a sarcastic smile. This smile reaches his eyes and two dimples appeared on his beautiful face.

“Then, I hope that you will replace your home at H.I.D.E., because it isn’t a bad place like people are saying. Here we can be ourselves and we aren’t judging each other.”

His warm brown eyes were shining with honesty, but I was still reluctant. “And why aren’t you judgmental morons?”

“Because we all know how it is to be looked at you like you are crazy, a monster, a loner, a freak and many other names, but in reality we are just different.”

“And what if I really am a monster? What if I’m not different and I’m just a sick coldhearted monster?” I asked and we stopped in front of a black jeep.

He shook his head. “You aren’t a monster.”

“You don’t have how to know that. You don’t know me.”

“That’s true, but if you were a monster, you would have killed me when you first saw me and you were already running away from here. But you didn’t and you know why.” he said and closed the car’s truck after he placed my suitcases in.

Why you didn’t ran away?

I thought that you should know the answer since you are me.

Nope. I know some things about you, but not everything.

I stayed because deep down I think that it wasn’t me, the one who killed all those persons. I think that I’m not a monster or at last I don’t want to became a bigger one than I already am.

Good luck with that.

A shiver ran down my spine. The voice said it in a darker tone then usual and added a dark chuckle at the end.

“Come on. Get in because we have a 3 hours drive ahead.” he said and opened the passenger door for me.

So nice face and manners? It’s impossible. He must be a unicorn or something.

I got into the car and he shut the door. He jogged to the driver’s site and got in too.

“Put your seat belt on, please.” he said and revived the engine.

I rolled my eyes but put it. “Why? If we have an accident and I’ll fly through this window, I wont die.”

“This is called a windscreen, it’s not a window. And I know that, but you would be hurt if you would fly through it, but if you have the seat belt on, you will stay in the car.”

“Whatever, dad.” I placed my earphones in and listened to Weathers- Happy pills.

I love this song. It’s one of my favorite ones.

My hands started to mimic how the drummer should beat in his drums while shaking my hand on the beat.

“I take my pills and I’m happy all the time,

I’m happy all the time, I’m happy all the times,

I love my girl but she ain’t worth the price,

She ain’t worth the price, no

She ain’t worth the price.” I sang the lyrics without realizing it while shaking my head.

A chuckle made me stop and look at him.

“Nice voice and nice moves, Shadow. I think that you can hold a whole show all by yourself.” he said with amusement clearly in his tone.

I mumbled a ‘Thanks’ and restrained myself at just tapping my foot on the rhythm.

My eyes started to close as the tress blurred past us. This is a nice region and we must be somewhere at the mountains since I can seen them in the horizon line.

Suddenly, Iron stopped the car on the right side of the road.

“Iron, what are you doing because I’m pretty sure that we aren’t at H.I.D.E..”

We were in the middle of the fucking nowhere with no signs of life.

OMG. This fucker wants to kill me, but I won’t let this happen.

“No, I won’t kill you. We have to change the car and take another route from here.” he said and get out.

I followed his example and got out. “What? Why?”

He took out my suitcases and placed them on the ground. “Because this car will explode after we exit this forest. That’s why.”

“WHAT?” I scratched. “And why in the name of God this car will explode??”

He raised one eyebrow at me. “Do you really think that Raven will be satisfied if he just sends you away? He wants to get rid of you once and for all. He has people everywhere and he put one of them to place a bomb on this car while I was waiting for you inside the airport. Wait here.”

Anger boiled in me. That fucker wants to kill me and wants to make it look like an accident. I should have killed him.

Told yaaaa.

Iron drove the car in the middle of the road and jump from it while the car continued to walk down the road.

“I set it on autopilot. Now, we have to walk through the forest until we replace another road. There a car will be waiting for us.” he started to walk through the forest.

I stared at him a little before I jogged after him. “Wait for me, idiot! I have short legs!!”

He ignored me and kept his pace as I was jogging next to him.

It really sucks to have short legs while others have pillars instead of legs. Three steps of mines were 1 step for him because he was too fucking tall!

“How do you know about the bomb since you were inside?” I asked as I found a good pace of jogging.

“It’s not the first time when he tries something like that and we have people everywhere. Including the academy.”

A frown appeared on my face. “But, why do you need people everywhere? I thought that H.I.D.E. it’s just a kind of asylum.”

He chuckled. “It’s not an asylum, but I can’t tell you anything else. Mr. Tornado wants to tell you everything personally.”

“God, I hope that he’s not as crazy as Raven because I can’t handle another Raven.” I said exasperated.

“He is the completely opposite of Raven, trust me on this. But you will see this with your eyes once we are there.”

“If you say so.” I shrugged and kept jogging.

In moments like this ones, I’m thankful of the whole days of practice I had.

We walked for 10 minutes, or jogged if you have short legs, and we finally were next to a road. Another black jeep was on the left side of the road.

He quickly placed my suitcases in the truck as laid down on the whole backseats.

“Someone is tired?” he asked as he started to drive.

I turned around to stay on my tummy. “I spent 7 fucking hours in a place, then another hour in a car followed by 10 minutes of jogging, so yes. Yes, I’m tired. Goodnight.” I said and went to sleep.

A chuckle is the only thing I remember before I fell asleep.

The world suddenly began to shake and I opened my eyes immediately. I blinked a few times to adjust my eyes with the brightness.

“Morning sleeping beauty.” Iron said and he must be the one who shook me.

Stupid boy. I thought that there was an earthquake!

“Shut the fuck up or I’ll destroy that pretty little face of yours.” I mumbled grumpily and sit on my butt rubbing my eyes.

“Oh, so you think that I have a pretty face, huh? Good to know.” he teased me and I glared at him.

He raised his hands. “Okay, I get it. Not a morning person. Or I just woke up after a nap person. Come on. You have to meet with Mr. Tornado before you settle in.”

I groaned and dragged myself out of the car. When I saw the view in front of me, my jaw dropped.

In front of me was a 4 stories mansion and it was huge. It was bigger then the academy. The building was painted in white and some black wound the windows and the doors, and it was giving the building a modern look. The roof was actually a roof garden and I think that it’s the best place for stargazing. I turned around and saw a black stone road that was interrupted by big black gates which had spikes in the top and now they were closed. After the gates the road starts to get muddy and goes through the forest.

Hmm. It looks like this place is all surrounded by tall pine trees, except the big court in front of the building. I looked back at the building and I saw a glim of the crown of a mountain. The crown it was barely visible by the clouds nd the frog swirling around it.

The weather was slightly colder then back at the academy but I like it. Sometimes it’s nice to change some things.

I breath out on my mouth and steam come out of my mouth. “It’s cold.” I concluded.

When I was little, I used to do this all the time in the winter and if steam would came out of my mouth, then it meant that it was cold outside. I still believe in that little, trick let’s call it.

Iron chuckled. “If now it’s cold, wait until it will start to snow.”

“I like snow. This place must be marvelous when it’s covered in snow. I mean more marvelous then it already is.”

He nodded. “It really is something worth seeing, but keep calm. You will see it and soon too. I think that in 2 weeks the first snow will fall.”

A small smile appeared on my face. “I’m looking forward to it.”

He smiled too. “Okay, now we have to meet with Mr. Tornado. Let’s go and finish already because I think that you want to settle and get some rest.”

“Yeah....” I sighed and stared at the building again.

It looks okay, but I don’t trust appearances anymore. Anything can happen from now on.

“Let’s go.” I said and I followed Iron to the entrance of the building.